BUSTER B. JONES: A Decade of Buster B. Jones

Buster B. Jones

A Decade of Buster B. Jones

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The absolute pinnacle of fingerstyle guitar playing.

tracks

1 Back Porch Boogie
2 Georgia on my Mind
3 Salty Dog Rag
4 Rattenbury Rag
5 Steppin' Out
6 Black Mountain Rag
7 Flight of the Hummingbird
8 Limehouse Blues
9 Linus and Lucy
10 Mostly Merle
11 Mozart 101
12 Wizard of Oz Medley
13 Knights of the Round Table
14 Ask John
15 Fingers in Flight
16 Just Another Rag
17 Merci Marcel
18 Sir Thomas Leddy
19 Shadows in Dark
20 Just Us
21 Ciao Pier Paolo
22 Charming
23 The Claw
24 Days Gone by
25 Alabama Jubilee

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Buster B. Jones is a master of the guitar styles of Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed. He has explored their music, styles and techniques, but has developed his own unique style and depth.

Buster is known as a blazing fast and dynamic player, and was given the nickname "The Machine Gun" by admiring fans in France, but his original compositions expose a lyrical and gentler side to his musical personality.

Raised in Ames, Iowa, Buster began playing guitar and mandolin at an early age, following in the footsteps of his older brother Ron, who Buster idolized as the "best left- handed guitarist ever." It became apparent however that by Buster's mid-teens he would have a special gift for music, and his musical ability exploded..

Buster never took formal lessons, but developed his mastery of the guitar through sheer trial and error, and by diligently trying to learn the complex styles of players like Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed.

"I touch on many different styles and approaches to playing lead and rhythm guitar. My goal as a player is to expand these perimeters and express what I feel musically," Says Buster, who often plays for other guitar players at conventions like the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society in Nashville and NAMM.

"Playing to a bunch of guitar players and fans is like watching Dawn of the Dead on video. They just stare at you, slack-jawed, looking like they want to eat your brain. It's a wonderful feeling!"

Buster has produced 10 teaching videos for Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop that are considered essential for anyone interested in learning this style.

He is the 1990 winner of the National Fingerpicking Championship held yearly in Winfield, Kansas. What others have said.....

"Buster B. Jones is the best fingerpicker I've heard since Jerry Reed. He plays like he's double parked."
Chet Atkins

"Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player, a fingerpicker, a country flavored soloist, and he's one of the finest players we've heard in years... His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense, innate musicianship, unfailing human, and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous, loving touch... He's a monster player with chops galore, great ideas and an encyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences."
Guitar Player Magazine

"He's one of these genre-jumping fingerstyle players, rooted in electric country, and he plays at such a cruel pace that people have reportedly mistaken his solos for duos, a little like Mark O'Connor in the fiddle world."
Edmonton Sun

"Even if you stripped out the instructional aspects of his videos, they'd still be a mind blower. Buster B. Jones is, plain and simple, amazing."
Dirty Linen

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  • Great to hear your pikin
    author: Preston Perkins

    Just wated to to say thanks for all the fun a memories at sawmill music(and we did have fun)I just battled a 1 year war with cancer so this christmas is not going to be a money frugle one. but I have my friends-yep 100.oo in the bank ---no job because of complications from surgery, but just listening to your songs made it all disapear--thanks buster for being my friend and one of the trulely great artists of our time love ya Bro Preston Perkins

  • author: Queequeg

    This man is amazing. One listen and you will be convinced there is just about nothing he can't do with a guitar. Nicely balanced and mixed. Fast and flashy, and then he'll slow it down and lend soul and feeling to a pop standard or a classical piece. You don't have to be a guitarist to appreciate this CD, but it doesn't hurt either.

  • awesome!
    author: lacy

    i ordered this for my brother to give to our dad for Christmas and he loved it! we all did! buster b.'s fingerpicking is awesome. thanks!

  • Picking Machine.... with class.
    author: Eric Stahl

    Buster shows great versatility on this CD, and I have really enjoyed listening.

  • Fantastic Pickin'
    author: Mike

    Buster plays it all. Elements of many styles coupled with perfect fingerpicking. I love the tone of his nylon Godin Multiac guitar.

  • Buster B - last ten years
    author: re52

    If you don't know what Buster is all about, you need to buy this and find out. Otherwise, I doubt I can add anything other than what everybody else says...just incredible...absolutely incredible. Guitar players really have someone to look up to in Buster. Plus, you will never get tired of listening to his selections. I just wish I could take lessons from him!

  • This CD sounds great and your fingerpicking is better than ever.
    author: Pete Prown, lead guitarist of Guitar Garden

    Buster, glad to see you're still at it. I remember seeing you blow away the audience in a 5-minute cameo at the Ryman in Nashville, circa 1998. You stole the whole show!

  • Great Finger Picker! He's in my top 5!
    author: Allan Bremer

    Buster is a great player. I'm going to search for tabs to his songs, I hope I'll find them. If you are interested in fingerpicking, listening or learning, then you gotta have this CD...you gotta!

  • Awe inspiring?
    author: Rick White

    A great compilation from the master of finger style in any genre.

  • Fingerstyle at its very best
    author: Keith.G

    Diverse picking at break neck speed.This CD should come with a health warning (don't try this at home).Keep up the good work.

  • Flawless, smooth picking, ultimate version of " The Claw"
    author: Leif of Sweden

    Many,many notes per second, many tunes on the cd, means very much music for the dollar. Just kidding, this is a great album especially if you are into picking yourself. I liked the slow pieces too, Buster got it all in his hands.

  • Greatest Fingerpicker!
    author: Toru

    Buster is really cool guitarist,I love Buster,since when I met to him.This cd is true and you regret if you don't listen to it!

  • its very good, a great fingerpicker
    author: pedro

    I like this cd, great songs, well played, and a great fingerpicker.All songs are wonderful.I like it.

  • nice work Buster!
    author: Keith

    This is a very good CD, the playing is excellent! Wish I had all the albums that the selections on CD came from. I highly recommend this to fingerstyle guitar fans. I will be on the lookout for other CDs from Buster.

  • Out of this world picking!!!!
    author: Dan Ryan

    Awesome guitar picking! Just hearing Alabama Jubilee is worth the price of the CD.

  • Great CD....I have a couple of others by Buster, also his and Thom Bresh's DVD's
    author: Monty Montgomery

    A very well done CD......and CD Baby does a fantastic job of getting these out promptly, and packaged well. I like all of the selections Buster chose for this recording, and some of them are really outstanding.

  • Breath taking....!!!!
    author: Wanda Mullens

    I had the privilege of hearing you play, in Covington, Va about one or two months again. What a overwhelming show of talent. I couldn't do anything but sit there, not believing what I was hearing. I have already worn your CD completely out. You are truly terrific. Hope you are in town again, real soon. Love ya.. man.

  • Buster B Jones - a real legend
    author: Nathon Jones

    A Decade of Buster B Jones...well, I have Buster's CD with Thom Bresh and was mighty impressed with that. This CD confirms Buster's dedication and obvious love of finger picking...I only hope that I can catch him play sometime. If you love Thom Bresh, Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Marcel, Lenny etc, then you'll love Buster B Jones.

  • author: Steve Delgado

    It's amazing how he can play something so sweet and pretty one moment and the next he's firing that guitar like a machine gun. I've seen him play in person and I still walk away saying...That can't be done!

  • Killer
    author: Dean McMorry

    Are you kidding? If you know anything about fingerstyle guitar, you know Buster. This is a greatest hits of sorts and even if you have all of his previous (and now out of print albums), you MUST have this one for the cuts on here that weren't released previously. Buster is also a monster teacher. Watch out for his teenage proteges...and checkout some of his instructional DVDs. Awesome tips and tricks with a great sense of humor and delivery.

  • love your picken
    author: ron wise

    really a great cd. everyone should hear it. you play with great athority

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